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Parental Control CG3000 - Optus Making Customer Lives Unbearable & Children's Lives Unsafe
"Optus has stripped out the parental control functionality sir, but I'm not supposed to tell you. You need to speak to them." "God no, why would they do something evil like that?" "Well Sir,...
You have two possible options:
- Disable NAT on the CG3000. This will put it into bridge mode. Then you can install your own router and use your preferred parental control solution. This thread on Optus's own forum has the instructions, about half-way down.
- Netgear's parental controls are based on OpenDNS technology. It works by using OpenDNS DNS servers to filter lookups to websites with objectionable material. The CG3000 is probably hard coded to use Optus DNS servers; hence, no Netgear parental controls.
Well, there's a way around that. You can change the DNS servers on your devices. OpenDNS has instructions for Mac and Windows. For Android or IOS devices, query your favorite search engine for change android dns server or change iphone dns server. You can use either OpenDNS's main servers (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220) or their FamilyShield servers (208.67.222.123 and 208.67.220.123).
FamilyShield is a set and forget service. You trust OpenDNS to filter content correctly. On the other hand, if you want to customize the filtering, then use the main servers and create an OpenDNS account. They have free and paid versions of their filtering service.